Posted on 11/07/2024 7:55:00 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
I think it's worth reading the entire article.
“The masses are too stupid to understand and accept our enlightened leadership.” Said every Marxist ever.
Ping
That's because Trump DIDN'T say awful things about any of them. This author still regurgitates lies. Talking to Trump voters while you still believe and repeat lies about Trump isn't going to get you very far.
And for those who are afraid that conversing with Trump supporters will “normalize” him, get over it. He is the new normal. Period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics
but on a serious note we need to learn about apologetics. We need to be able to defend our positions with skill and artistry.
Please you arrogant bastards, don’t talk to conservatives, don’t do your homework, don’t read anything printed by a non-Lib! Stay in your cave, stay ignorant, and most importantly stay out of government!
We get this article every time Republicans win and it never happens. The Dems and their media lackeys are much more comfortable starting up the Rage & Resistance narrative again to start manufacturing lies about Trump or whichever other Republican is in charge.
How did this happen? Let me resurrect this viral email from Trump’s first term, when Leftists were gnashing their teeth:
“TRUMP? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??”
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It happened because you banned super-sized sodas.
And smoking in parks.
And offensive ideas on campus.
Because you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and people unsure about immigration ‘racist’.
Because you treated owning a gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism.
Because you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs.
Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult.
Because you used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share your eco-pieties.
Because you treated dissent as hate speech and criticism of Obama as extremism.
Because you talked more about gender-neutral toilets than about home repossessions.
Because you beatified Caitlyn Jenner.
Because you policed people’s language, rubbished their parenting skills, took the legitimacy out of their beliefs.
Because you cried when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible.
Because you said criticizing Islam is Islamophobia.
Because you kept telling people, “You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that”.
Because you turned politics from something done by and for people to something done to them, for their own good.
Because you treated people like sh*t. And people don’t like being treated like sh*t.
Trump happened because of YOU !
BTTT
Gee ...
I wonder why ...
I was listening to a Democrat “strategist” on local talk radio the other day. He said a big problem was that people didn’t understand that inflation was moderating.
What’s to understand? Go to the store, and check out the insane prices. End of story. No one needs to be “educated” about this.
How did this happen?
How did what happen?
I am in full agreement.
There is a caveat, though...many of these people (Leftists, not Liberals) I do regard as enemies operate on Half-Duplex mode, and only the “Talk” channel works in that Half-Duplex mode, while for them, the “Listen” channel does not.
I do not interact with them, and have had plenty of experience at it via dozens and dozens of direct on-the-street interactions with them, and have learned that interacting with Leftists (not Liberals) is utterly fruitless and counterproductive.
They can only be fought and defeated, not reasoned with.
There are Liberals who can be talked to and reasoned with. But the Leftist ideologues? Absolutely not.
That falls into the teaching pigs to sing category, IMO. And I have plenty of direct experience with it.
Instead, talk to people who voted for Trump.
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They will never, ever do that. Hate. When I ask Trump haters, they can not explain their reasons for hating Trump…..most all the replies are the same, “ I just hate Trump”.
They will be bitter and hateful to their graves. A miserable life.
‘Because you kept telling people, “You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that”.’
And worse, because they kept telling people “You must think this, you must say this, you must do this”.
> That’s because Trump DIDN’T say awful things about any of them. <
Exactly correct. YouTube ran quite a few election ads. The anti-Harris ads were dramatic, but also truthful. They focused on her failures as border tsar.
The anti-Trump ads were all straight-up lies. Here’s just one example. The ad featured an older woman who said, ‘I cannot vote for Donald Trump because he wants to end Social Security.”
Trump of course never said that.
I just found the article annoying. It’s condescending. They have truth. We have misinformation. But they need to get to know us because unless they understand how to talk to the people with different views, they won’t know how to argue against those views and make us see truth.
I see Truth. My Truth. And it’s that individuals sign a social contract. They will be good and upstanding and they won’t get shot or robbed. And they hire police to maintain that social contract. But when the murderers and robbers intimidate voters to give themselves power and fire the protectors, then we’re in a failing social contract.
I’m not trying to “understand” the murderers and robbers. I’m trying to protect the social contract that protects the rights of all of us who follow the social contract.
Personally, I’m not impressed with Apologetics. The only time I took a class in it I was mostly impressed with how idiotic the teachers were trying to use it to force the class to their point of view. I turned my back on the whole topic.
Amber I alone in thinking there is more to the grocery store thing than inflation? When I shop, I can’t help get super irritated that here I am with my wife, paying twice as much for groceries, while everyone knows damn well that the obvious illegals shopping with us are getting their groceries for free?
That’s the crux of the issue for me. we work hard to pay our bills, mortgage and groceries. These illegals are just getting everything free, everything.
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